Ukrainian 63rd Mechanized Brigade’s UAV Battalion recently took out 20 Russian soldiers in the Lyman direction. Published 27.10.2025

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1. The end of infantry as we know it is imminent. No society that has even the slightest sanctity of human life would sustain this level of abhorrent waste. Only a handful of nations are at the level of RF in this respect, in pure and utter disregard for any pushback or resistance to this wanton sacrifice of their population. Part of that is the regime pushing the volunteer, basically mercenary element of “they got what they signed up for/paid for” combined with the mass percentage of these lives being “periphery” souls from the provinces/hinterlands, thus hardly viewed as truly “Russian”. But as the war drags on, the money runs dry, and they start press-ganging the youth and working age men of the two cities that rule their empire : Moscow and Len, I mean St Pete, well, that social contract is broken, and the bedrock of the empire will begin its inexorable descent into oblivion.

   Now take what you see in this video, and trust that within twelve months at the longest, the MAJORITY of ground-based FPV drone kills will be fully autonomous, with only a few set variables seeing human interaction. Set target operating zone (marked off using waypoints identified by ISR drones, also largely autonomous or AI-enhanced), set operating priority of target (enemy drone > vehicle > infantry > building egress points > if no target found in initial scan then : return to launch point, or land and begin “landmine” mode where it waits for sensors to trigger, then pounces into ambush). I’ve seen a lot of absolutely terrible, uninformed takes on the state of AI, and this is not a “tomorrow” problem, this is a “today” application of existing tech. You don’t need AGI or ASI to do this stuff. You just need to apply existing AI technology, and cull all the useless bits off to make a very tight, focused model that can navigate, use sensors to identify things you want to kill, and execute the programming to home in and detonate. No high end processors, exotic equipment needed. And these things can be manufactured in enormous quantities. The harrowing thing to consider is that with no bottleneck of human operators, radio signals, or even fiber wires connecting them to anything, there is no limit to how many you can pour into the AO. You can send tens or even hundreds of thousands across grid squares of territory, systematically erasing all life and equipment from existence at the physical limits of flight speed and distance. And there will be little warning of approach. Some of these things can approach 200km/h, and they can fly through complex occlusion and obstacles as easy as a hot knife through cottage cheese. Even smoke and fog will make little difference, lidar and thermal sensors are cheap and effective. About the only thing that will give *any* semblance of survivability will be the ability to take any opportunity to get subterranean, or to counter the swarms with even bigger swarms of your own. But a human in such a mix will be merely a goldfish in a bowl of piranhas. Or maybe more aptly, a hotdog in a blender.

2. That second one where the whirling bees of death are stalking a dude in a ruined house, that looks like a horror movie.

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